Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-04
A BATTLE EOF GIANTS
Impending fn the British House of COmmORs-The Irish Crimes Bill a
 Bitter and Most MOmentous Ques-

I COmmOHS-Ihe 1r1Bh crimes k11I1 a l Bitter and Most Momentous Ques- tfon.
 BOSTON, April 3.-E. A. Perry cables | from London to the Herald as follows: The contest in the House of Commons becomes
 more earnest and exciting as it proceeds. It is a battle of giants, and of giants who have their temper up. Both the supporters and
 the opponents of the bill have put their
 strongest men in front and the debate taken
 altogether has attained an unusually high
 level, both in ability and interest. Some of
 the speeches deserve to pass into history as
 notable examples of political oratory. Both sides being determined to fight to the last,
 the end is still some distance in the future.
 But as I have informed you, nothing save loss of heart on the part of the government can affect their chance of winning. They are backed by substantial majority, and if they have the courage to use it for all 1t is worth the utmost the home rulers can ac- complish is to postpone the inevitable for short time. Mr. Labouehere said to-day that the opponents of the crimes bill propose to fight it until the closure has been forced at every stage. There are many stages. For instance, in- structions to the committee may be put dewn on the second reading, while on the different clauses long series of amendments may be offered. MT. Labouchere regards contemplat ed action against the bill as species of sub- revolution. But he holds that the measure is obnoxious to Liberal principles that the extremest obstruction is fully justified. He thinks that if the bill comes to it's third read ing the English, Scotch and Welsh Liberals as well as the Irish Nationalists ought to force the Speaker to suspend them as final protest against the iniquitous measure. He also declares that the land bill is one of the grossest swindles ever attempted by the classes upon the masses. He rates it as an act to make evictions easy to landlords who are not prepared to let their lands on fair terms. It gives them exemptions from rates and enables them to convert all tenants for whom judicial rents have not been fixed first into caretakers and secondly into bankrupts. The plan, he says, and the land bill hang together, the object of both being to maintain judicial rates at the old figure in order that under the purchase act the landlords may secure for their farms a price higher than they would if rents were made once more fair in accordance with the circumstances. The tenants are to be CO., creed, bullied and bankrupted into assenting to buy their farms, not at the market value, but at the prices which the landlords are pleased to put upon them.
 Mir. Labouchere's views represent the posi- tive pole of English radicalism on the home rule question. Although he has greater political influence than he possessed two years ago, the member for Northampton is far from being leader whose guidance is inn plicitly followed. He is taken more seriously Il. l., %o1 1A l,,1 o1I ,HoA,. for saying more than he means clings to him and his authority with his party is affected by it. On one point, however, his counsel has been taken. The against the gov ernment policy is to be carried from the floor of the House to the public platform. The to push the agitation into every corner of the kingdom and they are to have the assistance of the Irish Nationalists.
 Conseiaus that their cause in Parliament is lost the Gladstonians are preparing for pro longed agitation, which they propose to make similar in scope and fervor to the famous movement instituted by Gladstone as pro test against the Bulgarian atrocities. That uprising of the moral sentiment of the nation against the barbarian of the Turks restored Gladstone to power and his followers to day believe the outrages perpetrated in the en- forcement of evictions ill Ireland can be made equally effective in arousing popular indigna- tion in England with the result of sweeping out of office the men who uphold such cruel ties. The Liberal associations are stirring in every district and before the coercion bill passes the committee stage demonstrations of protest against it's final passage will be held in all the principal centers of the country.
 This will not be potent to immediately break the strength of the government or to prevent the enactment of the bill, but it can hardly fail to accelerate the event of dissolution.